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Essendon, Hawthorn NBL teams "If and its a big if"

Yeah the AFL Clubs can't afford $5mill for a few years to experiment with the NBL. Bullshit.

Essendon should get Hird to coach, he is great.

Or if/when they can't profit from it, they'll pull the pin. I agree I'd be treading carefully - don't think the AFL teams would be going into a venture like this for the good of basketball.

Yeah and when they get bored of it they'll leave us hanging the can for it. Not a good idea.

I would be surprised if the AFL teams aren't looking into it. It's pretty clear the AFL wants to dominate the sporting market as much as possible in Australia so expansion into basketball after having made moves already into netball wouldn't be out of the question.

Too much talent disparity. They would get slaughtered. Where would they play and how many fans would they have? How would they suddenly boost their income? I don't seem practical to me at all.

Wow, did someone say Bogut and charm?

We had Big Joe come out and say that he wanted an NBL team playing out of NT as well but now he works for 36ers so I'm sure that is dead to rights.

Forgetting the whole AFL affiliations things, I think Essendon would like Bogut to come over as joint owner or something like that and when Essendon gets bored which we know they will then Bogut will have to rely on his name and his charm and hopefully brand awareness to get new owners in... I prefer that idea over Hawthorn but then again Gleeson could return to them ?

We had Big Joe come out and say that he wanted an NBL team playing out of NT as well but now he works for 36ers so I'm sure that is dead to rights.

Forgetting the whole AFL affiliations things, I think Essendon would like Bogut to come over as joint owner or something like that and when Essendon gets bored which we know they will then Bogut will have to rely on his name and his charm and hopefully brand awareness to get new owners in... I prefer that idea over Hawthorn but then again Gleeson could return to them ?

As the saying goes, there's no such thing as bad publicity,

Getting the NBL is the news is a positive, even if most of these never come off.

It's just LK huffing and puffing.

Let's see, we've had the following so far re: "new teams":

1.) 2nd NZ team (Kiwis said not paying for a licence)/TAS team (in the works but this has never directly involved LK)
2.) Gold Coast team with Chinese players
3.) AFL teams

What have I missed out?

and what will he come up with next?

just think about what is going on here

Only issue is. What about all the supporters of the other 9 melbourne AFL teams. Surely they wont follow a new team in am AFL teams colours...

There's a lots of barriers to climb over and hoops to jump through in order to enter the NBL.

Each proposal should be taken on merit.

Essendon has an Esports team.
https://oce.lolesports.com/oce-opl/opl-2018-split-1/teams/bombers-413